Douglas Hyde Quotes
Douglas Hyde Quotes
- 1
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.
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- 2
Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
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- 3
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
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- 4
I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.
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- 5
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
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- 6
Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity.
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- 7
We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it.
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